"You still need to calculate the cost?" Ma Chao looked desperate. "Don't we have to count each of these things and arm them all? Every extra point of fighting is worth one point."
"It's completely useless for you to tell me that." Tacito said with a smile, "I'm jealous."
Ma Chao nodded. As a cavalry corps, how could Ma Chao not envy the opponent's mount? Seeing the opponent's top-notch war horse that is 1.85 meters tall, then look at his own horses that have broken through the historical limits due to the alienation of the essence of heaven and earth.
A top-notch Arabian horse with a shoulder height of 1.55 meters. Ma Chao silently deleted the word "top".
From now on, this war horse no longer deserves to be called a top war horse, the one on the opposite side is the top one.
"If you work hard to reach the third level of talent, the fiscal officer will definitely equip you with it." Tacito said with a smile, "These are the war horses prepared for the parliamentary guards when they were still heavy cavalry. Now they are all free-range.
Now, as long as there are three talents for cavalry regiment advancement, they will be approved for use. To be honest, these horses are really delicious."
"If you think it's too rich to feed you, you can sell it to me." Ma Chao said without restraint, "I want it too."
"It's impossible to arm you, but if you only need a small amount, it should be fine." Tacito thought for a while and said, "Currently, we and the Tenth are the only ones qualified to use it, but the Tenth Knight Corps, you know,
They don't ride horses."
When Tacito said this, Ma Chao had already constructed in his mind the image of the tenth knight riding an ostrich with its wings fluttering. It was so eye-catching.
"What's going on in Italy recently? You came back from the Yuan family, and those legions you mentioned are the ones you went to?" Ma Chao drooled and changed the subject. He was afraid that he would look at Tacito's horses again and bear the pain.
He keeps going to rob.
"Yes, only those two passed, but I think both of them have problems. Is it really okay for so many people?" Taqito thought of the 12,000 people in the Fourth Legion of Lucky and the second Patti.
The 18,000 people in the runner-up army couldn't help but turn blue, they were so beastly.
"Who knows, if there is a problem or not, it's none of my business." Ma Chao said nonchalantly, "Is there any other fun over there in Italy?"
"His Majesty Severus seems to be thinking about economic issues recently." Tacito looked up into the distance and followed Ma Chao to his resting place in Media, explaining the story of Italy to Ma Chao as he walked.
"I just took it as a joke." Ma Chao mocked, Severus understands economics, then Roma may have to sit on the ground and blow up.
"Although what you said is a bit excessive, it does make sense." Tacito nodded. In fact, the entire Roman Senate had the same idea. Now they are begging Severus not to commit suicide and shoulder the responsibility of Rome.
The economical Pompianus wanted to die even more.
"What is the new economic policy? Will it increase our wages, increase soldiers' salaries, or increase overall military expenditures?" Ma Chao asked casually. For so many years in Rome, the only traditional performing arts of the Severan Dynasty that he could see were for
Soldiers will receive additional salary.
The remuneration for Roman soldiers was higher than what Chen Xi paid to Han soldiers. Can you believe it?
"It seems that His Majesty Severus made an unannounced visit before and found that the country's economy is developing steadily and the people live and work in peace and contentment. After increasing the salary of the soldiers before, the soldiers had money to buy more things, and then the people of Italy became richer.
"Yes." Tachito didn't quite understand this either, but Tachito roughly knew what Severus said.
Ma Chao was confused about this. He only knew that if Severus continued to send money, Roma would definitely be doomed.
In fact, all the senators in the Senate thought so. Only Severus himself did not think so. After being persuaded by a group of senators with this theory, Severus did not increase the basic salary of Roman soldiers for about a whole year.
This year, Severus couldn't bear it anymore, so he used his own money to pay bounties to the soldiers of the Roman Empire. After the payment, Severus went to the market in person to take a look and found that not only did the country not pay more bounties to the soldiers because of him,
Money has led to the decline of people's livelihood, but the country has become more prosperous.
So Severus believed that raising the wages of soldiers would be beneficial to the country's economy. Although I don't know how this conclusion was reached, when Severus read out his investigation report in the Senate, the senators in the Senate were crazy.
You know, Pompianus is crazy anyway.
I have managed to keep the country's economy under control by relying on trade balance and state-owned industries, and you are here to mess with me again. Do you see the deficit? Such a big deficit. Even though I created it, no matter how you check it,
It’s all a deficit, please just be a human being.
Severus didn't understand economics at all, but he could see the reality. The reality was that the Roman economy was getting better day by day. Giving money by himself was conducive to the happy life of soldiers and citizens, so Severus said that he would once again increase the average salary of Roman soldiers.
salary.
As for the deficit, Severus doesn't understand this. In Severus' view, a deficit is just a deficit. Anyway, the country's economy is obviously improving now, and the people are happy to live in peace and contentment. The books are red, and the reality is very good. Why should I watch it?
I can't understand the accounts anyway.
Severus' theory of God killed Pompianus, and Severus even said something more effective - the deficit does not seem to affect reality at all. I think Rome has been better than me in recent years.
It was much better when I first came here. Sure enough, the books were fake.
Although the process was a mess and the logic was chaotic, Severus still came up with the correct answer. Yes, the books were false.
Of course, Severus just said this casually. He didn't care about the accounts. It didn't matter what the accounts looked like. Anyway, Pompianus always had no money except when he needed military expenses. At other times, Pompianus always seemed to have no money.
Even if he has money, he can still borrow money.
Severus is not a fool. If the treasury hadn't been able to run smoothly every day, Severus would have intercepted Pompianus' money as military expenses. Unfortunately, wouldn't it be impossible to intercept it? Especially the professionals of the Severus faction.
After a lot of research, but no money was found in the end, Severus finally realized that if I couldn't do it, I could just give the soldiers money first, and Pompianus would take care of it for me.
So the Senate is now crazy. Severus once again proposed a salary increase plan. Pompianus said that if you can get a silver coin, you will win. Then Severus proposed to use his own money to pay the salary first.
, and then the treasury paid off the debt, and Pompianus almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.
In short, this matter is now in a state of collapse. If it were other emperors, they would never have done this kind of thing. However, Severus using his own money to pay the soldiers has almost become a tradition.
Lu also did this kind of thing. This is just a reappearance of history.
Why was the military peak of the Roman Empire in the period of Severus and not the period of the Five Wise Emperors? For an emperor who used his own funds to pay his soldiers, it was impossible for the soldiers not to risk their lives to support him.
But this was very fatal for Pompianus. If Severus used his own money to distribute the money and then waited for the treasury to collect the money, it would be really fatal, and a lot of his plans would be ruined.
Of course, Pompianus could also make false accounts and continue to leave the treasury with nothing except a small risk reserve, but Severus always focused on his own workshop, which made Pompianus very painful.
, the other party’s intention was obvious, and since I couldn’t get the money out, I bartered.
This is very shameless, but it is also very legal.
In this situation, Pompianus is very passive. He now needs a new skill, which is to trick Severus into taking money to build an industry, and then the immortal jump will evaporate all Severus' small money. However, this is not realistic.
No one can evaporate the money of a military commander who is also an emperor.
Therefore, when Tacito left Rome, Pompianus was still very miserable. Fortunately, when people are pushed into a hurry, their potential will be stimulated. After being pushed into a hurry by Severus, Pompianus finally burst out with extraordinary strength.
Human level intelligence.
Although it is not complete, Pompianus and a mathematician conducted detailed calculations and created a financial product that looks very good.
Severus only needs to invest a part of the money every year. In the future, this part of the money will not only be returned to Severus, but also generate interest, and the national treasury will inject assets of the same size in batches as military expenditures. It can be said that Severus only needs to invest
Money can benefit all soldiers, and there is no need for such large-scale investment as now.
This financial product successfully attracted the attention of Severus, and many elders were also very interested in this. Pompianus wiped his sweat silently and barely escaped. As for whether he could
If it is done, Pompianus looked at the mathematical model he made, and there should be no problem. Besides, no matter how bad it is, it will not be as bad as the consequences of Severus directly sending money.
"Tsk, this is really good." Ma Chao smacked his lips twice and said with emotion, "By the way, where do you and your group plan to go this time?"
"Of course it's Congling. I'm ready to meet Chi Yanghou's group of people. Back then, we had a good fight, but we were left behind by those guys. Now we have caught up.
It’s impossible not to go and meet.” Tacito said quite excitedly, after all, it was Tacito, Li Jue and others who started the battle between Rome and Parthia.
Ma Chao looked Tachito up and down, looking at him as if he was mentally retarded. If you run to Congling with this cool look, isn't that like a meat bun beating a dog? If you go there, you will never come back.
"What kind of look are you looking at?" Tachito said dissatisfied.
"It's nothing, I just think you're really cool." Ma Chao smacked his lips twice, and decided to put aside the dispute with Li Jue, and sent a message to the other party, asking them to prepare to receive the five thousand shoulder-high one he sent.